Nifi flow development guidelines

[Sachidanand Tiwari <sa...@gmail.com>]

Team,

I am reaching out to you to seek your recommendation on development
guidelines when multiple teams are working on a Nifi flow. How to manage
source code version?. Do we need to having each functionality as separate
Process Group exported/imported as template?. How to deploy flow on Nifi
cluster environment.

As per our current approach, we are creating separate ProcesGroup for
different functionality and exporting/importing as template.

-Sachin

Re: Nifi flow development guidelines

[Joe Witt <jo...@gmail.com>]

Sachin

I think the most common approach is that developers focus on building
reusable components and integration testing in local or integration
test environments.  Those components, fully documented, are made
available to operations teams who weave those components and their
recommended configurations into the live feeds.  At times the
developer and the operations person are actually the same person but
they're wearing different hats when doing these things.  In such a
model the developer can also help by offering well scoped templates
that reflect how to wire together that component with other necessary
components to achieve a greater function.  Those templates can
certainly be version controlled.  Presently that is done outside of
NiFi but we do have a concept of a template registry with an
oustanding feature proposal [1] which will make this even nicer to
operate with.

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Extension+Repositories+%28aka+Extension+Registry%29+for+Dynamically-loaded+Extensions

Thanks
Joe

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Sachidanand Tiwari <sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Team,
>
> I am reaching out to you to seek your recommendation on development
> guidelines when multiple teams are working on a Nifi flow. How to manage
> source code version?. Do we need to having each functionality as separate
> Process Group exported/imported as template?. How to deploy flow on Nifi
> cluster environment.
>
> As per our current approach, we are creating separate ProcesGroup for
> different functionality and exporting/importing as template.
>
> -Sachin